1917 — 1918

24113
TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS
7(20) January 1918

The bearer — comrade Rakhya*, an old Party worker personally known to me, deserves absolute confidence. It is e x t r e m e l y important to aid him (for the Finnish proletariat) by issuing weapons: approximately 10,000 rifles with ammunition, approximately 10 three-pounder guns with shells.

I p l e a d that this be fulfilled without reducing the figures.

Yours, Lenin

43968
LETTER TO G. K. ORDZHONIKIDZE
Kharkov**
15(28) January 1918

For God's sake, adopt the most energetic and revolutionary measures for sending b r e a d, b r e a d and b r e a d!!! Otherwise Petrograd may perish. Special trains and detachments. Collection and loading. Escort the trains. Inform daily.

For God's sake!

Lenin

* Yu. A. Rakhya — Finnish Communist, organizer of the Red Guard in Finland in 1917. On 31 August 1920 he was killed by a band of White Finns who had infiltrated a gathering of Finnish Communists in Petrograd.

** G. K. Ordzhonikidze was at that time an Extraordinary Commissar of the Ukraine, and from April 1918 also an Extraordinary Commissar of Southern Russia and the North Caucasus.

LENIN MISCELLANY
23933
TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS
17(30) January 1918

I request the issuance of 25,000 rifles and 30 machine guns to the Commissar of the Finnish Railway, necessary for the defense of Russian soldiers in Finland against the atrocities of White Guard bourgeois detachments.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

23398
TELEGRAM TO TSENTROBALT*
Helsinki
27 January (9 February) 1918

It is hereby ordered that Tsentrobalt and the local committees of the fleet provide, upon the first demand of the army committee of the Reval Fortified District, transport for the conveyance of weapons and provisions to Helsinki.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the
original signed by
V. I. Lenin.

11178
DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS
ON THE APPROPRIATION OF 10 MILLION RUBLES
FOR THE STRUGGLE AGAINST COUNTER-REVOLUTION

29 January (11 February) 1918

To allocate at the disposal of the People's Commissariat of Military Affairs ten million (10,000,000) rubles for the struggle against

* Tsentrobalt — Central Committee of the Sailors of the Baltic Fleet.